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Genius. This maximizes their hardware investment and allows a whole new class of applications which need large amounts of cheap computing power but are not fus
by seldo 17y ago
Genius.
This maximizes their hardware investment and allows a whole new class of applications which need large amounts of cheap computing power but are not fussy about when the work gets done.
GENIUS. Revolutionary beyond my capacity to visualize. This is going to change the way the cloud computing space works.
The really interesting part is that physical location is one of the price parameters: picture the spinning globe, with real-time applications constantly migrating to instances where it's daytime for maximum performance, and asynchronous applications hugging the dark side where computing is cheap.
As a friend of mine said, this is to cloud computing as adsense was to online advertising: i.e. revolutionary, and an absolute cash fountain.
- fizx 17y agoWhat's interesting about this to me is that when combined with the currently free inbound bandwidth, you could have a pretty damn cheap crawler.
- swolchok 17y agoI was about to post a puzzled disagreement, but they did waive inbound bandwidth charges a week ago. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/aws-price-reductions.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/aws-price-reductions.html
- jacquesm 17y agoNow if they would get their outbound charges in line with what you pay at 'regular' hosting providers it would actually start to make sense. Currently if you shop around a bit you can pay anywhere from $.80 to $1.00 for a dedicated megabit, including the machine. Amazon doesn't come close to that.
- cperciva 17y agoCurrently if you shop around a bit you can pay anywhere from $.80 to $1.00 for a dedicated megabit, including the machine. You're clearly a much better shopper than I am. Where are you seeing these rates?
- jacquesm 17y agoI'm not going to advertise my hosting provider here, but I'll mail you. j. mail in your inbox. oh, and my bad but it should have been 'euros', not $ (force of habit, sorry).
- njharman 17y agoUm, genius? You're suffering from hyperbolism. It's technically impressive what they've done with there infrastructure from both a engineering and business/management perspective. But the idea is just time-shared computing which has been reimplemented a few times since the first companies offered compute time on their mainframes.